Oaks doubl down on LDS Church posn on gay marriage, genr inty

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Durg a votnal Los Angel, California, Print Dall H. Oaks answered qutns alg wh Church learship, mental illns, Church history, and the Church’s polici relatg to children raised by gay upl.

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OAKS DOUBL DOWN ON LDS CHURCH POSN ON GAY MARRIAGE, GENR INTY

While created natnal news about Kim Davis, Elr Dall H. Oaks' speech this week is a big al, one expert told the Deret News, bee "is a signifint velopment the unfoldg drama over relig liberty and gay rights." * president oaks gay *

“Our knowledge of God’s revealed plan of salvatn requir to oppose many of the current social and legal prsur to retreat om tradnal marriage or to make chang that nfe or alter genr or homogenize the differenc between men and women. "I thk Elr Oaks' statement is a signifint velopment the unfoldg drama over relig liberty and gay rights. Supreme Court's legalizatn of same-sex marriage three months before the and Staver are joed by many evangelil Christians, Catholics and other relig nservativ, not to mentn a group of 60 legal scholars who earlier this month lled for "nstutnal ristance" to the urt's the other end of the spectm are extremist gay advocy groups that mand affirmatn of all gay rights at the expense of relig liberty.

"Center pathThe LDS Church has built creasgly warm relatnships wh other fahs over the past 20 years as has backed tradnal marriage, fai and relig of those relatnships, like that wh the Catholic Church, which ved Mormon lears to a Vatin nference on the fay last November and to the World Meetg of Fai last month, would have appeared prepostero the past, Mormon scholars LDS Church took the first step on what Elr Oaks on Tuday lled a "center path" back 2009, when backed a nondiscrimatn ordance Salt Lake Cy that provid hog and employment protectns for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr January this year, Elr Oaks, two other members of the Quom of the Twelve Apostl and a lear the church's Young Women general princy ma natnal news when they plaly reerated the church’s support for laws that ensure fair accs to hog and employment for LGBT people while safeguardg relig the relig right and gay advocy groups balked. But March, the Utah Legislature passed a nondiscrimatn law embraced by gay advot and studied by other legislatur. They don't want any dissent, and not only do they not want any dissent, they want everyone to affirm gay marriage.

ELR OAKS MAK NATNAL NEWS WH STATEMENT ON GAY RIGHTS, RELIG LIBERTY

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” He addrsed qutns alg wh Church learship, mental illns, Church history, and the Church’s polici relatg to children raised by gay upl.

DALL OAKS SAYS SHOCK THERAPY OF GAYS DIDN’T HAPPEN AT BYU WHILE HE WAS PRINT. RERDS SHOW OTHERWISE.

Latter-day Sat lear Dall H. Oaks nied that Brigham Young Universy ed electroshock therapy on gays at the school when he was the print om 1971 to 1980. Individuals and rearch say otherwise. * president oaks gay *

Referencg the Church’s 2007 publitn God Loveth His Children, Print Oaks said there are many polil, legal, and social prsur for chang that would change the fn of marriage or -emphasize s importance, nfe genr, or homogenize the differenc between men and women that are sential to acplish God’s great plan of happs. Constutn to ny rights to addrs was hailed by some as a step toward empathy by Oaks, a top lear The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, a former Utah Supreme Court jtice and a former Brigham Young Universy, durg a qutn-and-answer ssn earlier that day at the law school — a vio of which has been circulatg on social media — the first unselor the fah’s erng First Princy refed to discs the impact of the church’s past mistreatment of s LGBTQ tegorilly nied that BYU had ed electroshock therapi on gay stunts durg his tenure om 1971 to 1980. ”Acrdg to rearcher Gregory Prce and others, that statement is monstrably his 2019 book, “Gay Rights and the Mormon Church: Intend Actns, Untend Consequenc, ” Prce c “universy-approved” rearch 1976 by then-BYU graduate stunt Max McBri wh 14 gay subjects.

“A gradual crease of voltage upon repeated aroals was to serve as a negative feedback stimul that would, acrdg to the hypothis, ‘reorient’ him om homosexual to heterosexual, wherpon photographs of nu femal were supposed to elic sexual aroal. ”Two weeks after the “treatments, ” subjects offered their self-evaluatns and said they were “signifintly ls homosexual than heterosexual, ” McBri nclud. The ntug public bate over same-genr marriage has prompted many qutns om the news media, the general public and Church members relatn to the posn of The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats on the marriage issue specifilly and on homosexualy general.

PUBLIC AFFAIRS: At the outset, n you expla why this whole issue of homosexualy and same-genr marriage is important to the Church?

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News - Dall Oaks says shock therapy of gays didn't happen at BYU while he was print. Rerds show otherwise. * president oaks gay *

ELDER OAKS: This is much bigger than jt a qutn of whether or not society should be more tolerant of the homosexual liftyle.

Such advot are quick to mand eedom of speech and thought for themselv, but equally quick to cricize those wh a different view and, if possible, to silence them by applyg labels like “homophobic.

” In at least one untry where homosexual activists have won major ncsns, we have even seen a church pastor threatened wh prison for preachg om the pulp that homosexual behavr is sful. He believ he’s probably gay. I thk ’s important for you to unrstand that homosexualy, which you’ve spoken of, is not a noun that scrib a ndn.

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